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First POST: Reviving the List

Tuesday, December 11 2012

Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus subscribers: Obama for America asks its supporters to return to work; freedom of expression advocates breathe a sigh of relief after the latest news from Dubai; and more in today's roundup of news about technology in politics from around the web.

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Update: Obama supporters who have signed into Dashboard, Obama for America's online organizing system, received another round of emails urging them to use the "call tool" available through the platform.

A WCIT proposal backed by Russia, China and several Arab states that called for governments to have "equal rights to manage the Internet" has been withdrawn from discussion following public uproar over the leaked proposal, the AP reported. A hacker group claimed it stole and disclosed 1.6 million passwords from aerospace industry companies and agencies as a protest against the ITU.

The FCC is creating a task force to "encourage the adoption of latest-generation wireline and wireless broadband Internet networks," the Hill reported.

A New York Times editorial praises the recent Senate Judiciary Committee vote on email privacy. The committee approved a bill that would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant to inspect private emails.

Meanwhile, a federal appeals court refused to reconsider an August ruling that the U.S. government can conduct surveillance on Americans' communications without a warrant.

A man who has declared his home and yard in Nevada a micronation and himself its president, is seeking to " continue and formalize our current peaceful and fruitful relationship" with the United States through the We the People online petitioning website.

Australian police are warning about the use of Apple's iOs 6 maps after several drivers ended up stranded in a national park after following its directions. Earlier, researchers found that a South Pacific island indicated on Google Maps and other maps does not in fact exist.

The German Social Democratic candidate for Chancellor, Peer Steinbrück, mocked for his seeming lack of Internet savvinesss, has officially joined Twitter and plans a Q&A tomorrow with the hashtag #fragpeer, which translates to "#askpeer." At the same time, the use of Twitter hashtag pages during both the Conservative and Social Democratic party conferences has prompted concerns that some tweets using the official hashtags were censored or fitered.